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I've run a lot of sewer bashes over the years, the most recent in a short lived Freeport game and ended up making a Word document of potential things the PCs could run into. It included: Giant Crocodiles Normal Crocodiles Giant Toads Rat Swarms Giant Rats Giant Rat Monster Thing Gelatinous...

Thanks for all the replies everyone. It's given me some food for thought, and I'll be rolling my multi-attacks separately from now on.

That's a really good point -I hadn't thought of that. Most of the Multi attackers I've used so far tend to have multiples of the same attack, which is why I rolled them all at the same time. I almost never attack a downed PC. Once someone's unconscious, the enemies move on to someone else. It's...

I've run into an odd, and rather lethal, side effect of monsters with Multi-attack. My PCs are currently 4th level, and at one of points in the game where they can quite easily bite off more than they can chew - strong enough to be dangerous, but then not resilient enough to take too much...

Yep - keep it up your sleeve for when you really want to challenge or annoy your players. Nothing puts a bit more challenge into a fight than someone counter spelling someone else's big encounter ending spell, or their life saving Mass Healing spell, or their 'it's all gone pear shaped' teleport...

It's something from 1E. The metal weapons that Druids can use are versions of the ceremonial sickles they use for cutting mistletoe. See "Asterix and the Golden Sickle" for more information. The scimitar always felt a bit of a stretch, but I think it was mostly there to give druids an...

I've had a PC Ranger in my current game using a modified Derro Repeater X-Bow which has much the same stats as I use for Handguns in my Wild West themed game - d8 damage, one handed, Ammunition 6, which can be used as a Hand Crossbow for the Crossbow Expert feat. It's quite nasty, but the having...

I really, really liked the 4E background, and fluff, as compared to earlier versions. The whole points of Light and Dawn War concepts fitted really well into my homebrew world that I've used since 1E. It didn't take much tweaking to fit it all in. I also liked the way 4es background would have...

4E had some great stuff, some good stuff, and some awful stuff. My picks for best are: The Monster Vault - far. far better than 4Es Monster Manual, has a lot of the classics and a good lot of background stuff to go with it and tokens for every monster in the book. This is great for starting...

Runequest 4, Delta Green Core Rulebook, My Little Pony Story Telling Game.

My CoS GM was less than impressed when I suggested we should run into The Creature in his campaign. Ravenloft is one big homage/rip off of classic horror tropes and I'd have thought The Creature would have fit right in. :p He didn't let me play a Monk either. :( I was hoping for a whole...

I find when reading boxed text, it's vitally important to: -Read it in a slightly rushed monotone, quite different from your normal GMs voice. -Accidentally skip words, or even whole lines -Go back over what you've just said, and then read it all out again -Skip forward from the box and...

I'll make a list of the spells a monster knows, and then familiarise myself with them before the game. If I'm feeling particularly organised, I'll cut and paste the spells from either the basic rules or the SRD, and print them out on a sheet with the Monsters stats. Putting the attack stats of...

I'm currently running an Old West themed D&D game, and yes the rogue is incredibly bad-ass. There's usually a lot of terrain on the table for people to take cover or hide behind, and that makes the Rogue lethal. He hasn't even bothered with getting a pistol yet either. I'm not too bothered by...

The WEG Star Wars game was a thing of genius, a great system that was designed to fit the setting. It's pretty much the one thing that saved the Star Wars Universe during the 'Dark Time', that period after Jedi, but before the Zhan novels or the Dark Empire comics. A lot of the Art in the...

If you're running it using miniatures and a battlemat, do the wraparound map trick - everything that goes off one side comes on the other. Use the excuse of it having its own center of gravity to explain why missiles and spells don't go flying off into the void, so can come looping back around...

I use it. In fact until I read this I hadn't even thought about not using it. Now I am wondering if it does have a bad effect on combat - the conga line of death, the ease at which people move around each other making it so easy to get, and the tag teaming to get it. I might have to try a...

I really liked the Iron and Adamantium Dragons being core. There were designers notes that they got rid of the Bronze and Brass because they were too close to Copper in looks/Style, and wanted the Metallics to all be fairly distinctive. Having the other return in the Dracomonicon2 was cool as...

Very good thread so far. I look forward to seeing your rejigged Feats. Now that my Players are starting to take Feats I've been looking at them closer than I had previously and I'm not sure about a lot of them. I was over all a bit disappointed with how Feats were implemented in 5E. In terms of...

I had a similar problem back in 4e. An Elven Ranger whose Perception and therefore Passive Perception was truly ridiculous. It basically meant traps and Secret Doors were pointless, and trying to sneak up on the Party was really difficult. I generally either gave up on sneaking, preferring...